Talk:Task-based language learning

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I'm dubious. Does this topic really exist?

"task-based language learning" is, by definition, a subset of "language learning". The problem I see is that all language learning seems to be task-based, so the qualifier "task-based" is meaningless. It gets used by companies in their advertisements, and governments in their public relations work, but that doesn't imply that it means anything.

I've learned multiple foreign languages, and I've yet to come across a language learning method that couldn't be called "task-based". Every book uses dialogues, and all dialogues can be described as accomplishing a task (the task of introducing yourself, the task of returning an item to a shop, the task of reporting a theft...).

This article talks about a method which isn't "purely" task-based. It seems to me that "tasks" are just a part of language learning, and all language learning methods are to some degree "task-based". So, "task-based language learning" is also "grammar-based", because it involves grammar, and it's also "vocabulary-based", because it involves words...

Yep, I think this is nothing but a marketing term masquerading as a topic. The amount of descriptive test without references reinforces my thinking. Gronky (talk) 10:18, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

UPDATE: I guess there's a topic "tasks (language learning tool)", and some methods are more task-based than others. No method is 100% or 0% task-based (just as no method is 100% or 0% grammar-based). A method that focusses a lot on tasks could be called "task-based", but it's just a label. This article shouldn't be about the label, it should be about the concept, which is "tasks (language learning tool)". Gronky (talk) 10:51, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This really is a topic

For language education professionals, like me, this is very much a topic. It is one of the major developments of Communicative Language Teaching. In terms of Related approaches, at the bottom, Dogme should be deleted. I can't imagine, and I hope my suspicions are wrong, who added this. If anything is related, try webquests and communicative language teaching.